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Educating Rita [DVD]

Julie Walters (Actor), Michael Caine (Actor), Lewis Gilbert (Director, Producer) Rated:
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4.4 out of 5 stars 900 ratings
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Genre Drama, Comedy
Format DVD, Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Subtitled, Dubbed
Contributor Michael Caine, Lewis Gilbert, Oaktree Prods NV (APL Intl), Julie Walters, William P. Cartlidge
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 51 minutes
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Michael Caine and Julie Waters star in this delicate romance about a lively young working class woman on the path to self discovery and the professor who acts as her guide. it's a toss up who learns more, the hairdresser hungry for knowledge or the world-weary, alchoholic professor.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 0.32 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Lewis Gilbert
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ DVD, Color, Widescreen, NTSC, Subtitled, Dubbed
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 51 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 24, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Julie Walters, Michael Caine
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Lewis Gilbert, William P. Cartlidge
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified, French (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000C20VSW
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 900 ratings

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Customers find this movie to be a classic with excellent acting, particularly praising Michael Caine's performance. The story is well-written and believable, while the dialogue is witty and humorous. They appreciate its educational value, with one customer noting it's suitable for teaching adult education classes. The picture quality receives positive feedback for its clear visuals and great backgrounds. However, several customers report issues with DVD playback compatibility, noting that Region 2 discs don't work in U.S. players.

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58 customers mention "Movie quality"58 positive0 negative

Customers love this classic movie, describing it as wonderful and entertaining, with one customer noting it's based on the original play.

"Excellent never goes out of style" Read more

"...is a delight, with bitter-sweet moments at times, but very hilarious moments throughout...." Read more

"...Rita shoots straight from the hip and is so lovely and full of life that she won't take no from Frank and thus starts her subtle metamorphosis from "..." Read more

"This is one of the great films of the second half of the twentieth century. It is, in essence, Pygmalion redux...." Read more

20 customers mention "Acting"20 positive0 negative

Customers praise the acting in the movie, particularly Michael Caine's performance, with one customer noting the subtle and continuous transformations of both characters.

"...The acting is first-rate, the dialog is both witty but also believable, and the final resolution is optimistic without being trite...." Read more

"...Oscar that year and Kane just missed it but iit was his best role with his best acting, he just fit the role so well ...the perfect DvD to have on..." Read more

"...I think the two lead actors are quite good, but there is not enough delving into each of their lives and the societal forces and constrictions that..." Read more

"...Overall a very good story 2. Julie Walters does an outstanding job as an actress in this film 3...." Read more

20 customers mention "Story quality"20 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the movie's story, finding it believable and well-written, with one customer describing it as a delightful tale of an uneducated woman.

"Excellent never goes out of style" Read more

"...plays in a rather tight British local accent, but the storyline is so well written, that the action alone flaws smoothly and is very..." Read more

"...The acting is first-rate, the dialog is both witty but also believable, and the final resolution is optimistic without being trite...." Read more

"...imagines herself 'a little out of step' with the University thing, is gorgeous and versatile...." Read more

14 customers mention "Humor"14 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's witty dialogue and sense of humor.

"...The acting is first-rate, the dialog is both witty but also believable, and the final resolution is optimistic without being trite...." Read more

"...to "sing a better song", this movie highlights the journey with bittersweet humor...." Read more

"...I find him to be a more serious actor. He was very charming and enjoyable a character. Julie Walters was great as Rita...." Read more

"...Humorous and touching in every scene." Read more

12 customers mention "Educational value"12 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's educational value, describing it as inspirational and thought-provoking, with one customer highlighting its focus on character growth.

"...story,, acting , backgrounds all great and it is the best INSPIRATIONAL dvd for those who are struggling towards a goal with fordable obstacles..." Read more

"...Julie Waters and Michael Caine make a wonderful student and teacher team...." Read more

"I very much enjoyed the movie, Educating Rita. I had watched this presentation years ago and wanted to find out if I would still enjoy it today...." Read more

"...as it underscores the difference between learning facts and learning to use your mind. Caine and Walters are at their very best here." Read more

7 customers mention "Performance quality"7 positive0 negative

Customers praise the brilliant performances in the movie, with one specifically highlighting the memorable portrayal of Rita.

"...The old DVD was fine , but the sran rate for BR is better. Picture was clear and audio was fine...." Read more

"...Julie Waters gives a really memorable performance as Rita. I'm happy I added this nice little film to my nice little film library." Read more

"...Julie Walters' and Michael Cain's performances were nothing short of brilliant. The dialogue was clever and witty...." Read more

"This is a charming film with both stars performing beatifully...." Read more

4 customers mention "Picture quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers like the picture quality of the movie, with backgrounds receiving positive feedback, and one customer noting that the final resolution is optimistic without being trite.

"...The entire picture is a delight, with bitter-sweet moments at times, but very hilarious moments throughout...." Read more

"...is both witty but also believable, and the final resolution is optimistic without being trite...." Read more

"...dvd you need for a "date movie".....story,, acting , backgrounds all great and it is the best INSPIRATIONAL dvd for those who are struggling..." Read more

"...The old DVD was fine , but the sran rate for BR is better. Picture was clear and audio was fine...." Read more

7 customers mention "Dvd playability"0 positive7 negative

Customers report issues with DVD playback, particularly noting that Region 2 discs don't work in U.S. players.

"...So the movie wouldn’t work in our equipment. So disappointed...." Read more

"Didn't get to watch the movie, as the DVD doesn't work!..." Read more

"The DVD did not play on my American DVD player...." Read more

"...to play numerous Region B titles, but this particular Region B disc refused to play. Be warned..." Read more

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  • Kathleen Kutz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence never goes out of style
    Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
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  • Patrick Selitrenny
    5.0 out of 5 stars Michael Caine and Julie Walters: a pair made in Heaven...
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2007
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    This is a very enjoyable comedy and Michael Caine has an odd presence here.

    What happens when a working class "babe" decides to go back to school and make a culture for herself and meets a disillusioned and highly drunk literature professor, meant to tutor her in this endeavor?

    This is just the premise of this little comedy.

    What else is there? Well, the fact that two worlds, at the opposite to each other start to merge through two completely different people.

    Like Tom and Jerry, Tweety and Sylvester, this is truly a Cat and Mouse game.

    But who is the cat and who, the mouse?

    Even better would be the comparison with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

    What's up Doc?

    For American audiences it may be a bit difficult to understand, since Julie Walters plays in a rather tight British local accent, but the storyline is so well written, that the action alone flaws smoothly and is very understandable.

    Earlier, I said that Michael Caine plays an odd role. What I mean by that, is that until this picture was shot, he had always played ordinary people, such like in "Alfie", "Get Carter", "The Italian Job" etc.

    In this one he was making a leap forward, in quality and in skills.

    By the way, he plays a wonderful "sober" drunk.

    The entire story is a close parallel to "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. The only difference is that it was quite updated, and while Professor Henry Higgins, would never truly mingle and socialize with members of the working class (it wouldn't even cross his mind to abase himself in doing so), our modern Henry Higgins does it.

    But not enough. While Eliza Dolittle in Pygmalion, "serves and adores" the Professor, the modern version is far more pragmatic and while she too admires the Professor, she quickly realizes that he is just a wreck and needs a touch of reality in his life.

    The entire picture is a delight, with bitter-sweet moments at times, but very hilarious moments throughout.

    The transfer in High Definition restores the picture to its original splendor, which even in theaters was never that brilliant. The sound is nothing special, being in plain two-channel Mono, but the dialogues are clear, and since the lines in such a picture are the most important element, this is fair enough.

    If you want to watch a true odd couple in action, then Michael Caine and Julie Walters are the couple you want.

    I can truly recommend it. You won't be disappointed.
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  • Homer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Educating Rita
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2008
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    Educating Rita
    "Educating Rita" is in my personal top five movies of all time. Although labeled a romantic comedy I think that this movie is in a class by itself and defies categorization. I have a definite academic bent and this Oscar nominated, Lewis Gilbert directed, 1983 film still strikes a deep chord though I've watched it over and over.

    Frank(Michael Caine), a divorced and bored-with-life alcoholic professor, just "happens" to be assigned as a personal tutor for the lovely vibrant working-class Rita(Julie Walters).

    Rita shoots straight from the hip and is so lovely and full of life that she won't take no from Frank and thus starts her subtle metamorphosis from "uneducated" to "educated". However, in her process of transition Frank finds that he has created a monster, from his point of view(he refers to Shelley's Frankenstein), as Rita takes on the groomed academic veneer that she so desperately covets and Frank so openly despises.

    During Rita's "education" a love subtly grows between the two and always lurks just below the surface. Rita is a "looker" and her natural beauty coupled with her delightful frankness sparks a constant longing inside of Frank.

    This DVD begs the question...just what is real education? Is it the simple mouthing of academic platitudes from a learned and cultivated rote or is it lighting the spark of investigation inside of someone so that they may excel in life, and love? For the answer to that you need to buy this DVD or at least rent it somewhere :) and find out for yourself!
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  • Allan M. Lees
    4.0 out of 5 stars Pygmalion Redux
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2016
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    This is one of the great films of the second half of the twentieth century. It is, in essence, Pygmalion redux. Unlike GB Shaw's treatment, however, Michael Caine's Eng Lit professor is the sort of dissolute character of whom Henry Higgins would most certainly have disapproved. In the middle of an extended alcohol-soaked mid-life crisis, Dr Bryant is content to drift along on an ocean of self-pity and self-contempt. His original conception of himself as a poet fell apart when he realized he had no real talent. Now he lives out his life as a university lecturer in a parody of middle-class contentment.

    Into this life walks Rita. For viewers unfamiliar with England, and particularly of England before the Thatcher revolution permeated downward to undo centuries of rigid class system assumptions and automatic prejudices, it's important to understand that Rita's working-class (blue collar) life would never have come into contact with Bryant's middle-class existence except perhaps to serve him in a corner shop or clean his rooms for a pittance. Rita, however, is that rare thing: a person of above-average intelligence and drive, seeking a way out of the claustrophobic half-life she shares with her uneducated husband. Rita wants to better herself. She wants an education. And when Bryant demurres, she forces herself upon him.

    The core of the movie is Rita's acquisition not only of knowledge but of middle-class moeurs counterpointed by Bryant's ever-greater dissolution. Watching Rita wrap herself in the most cliched middle-class affectations, Bryant feels he's been party to helping her rob herself of her authenticity. At the same time it is also clear that as she becomes more accomplished his role in her life is reduced, and he resents this. The result is a scene in which a drunken Bryant scorns Rita for what she's become and she asserts her need to be more than she was.

    It may not be immediately apparent to non-British viewers just how dead-end life could feel in the UK prior to the Thatcher years. Britain was a place of strikes, of decay, of dashed hopes and dreary days. It was a place where few could feel optimistic about the future. As Bryant says towards the end of the movie, Britain back then was "a place that's just finishing." The power of this movie comes from Rita's determination not to sink without trace, without fighting.

    In the end both are redeemed. Bryant hits rock-bottom and is sent off to Australia ("It's a paradise for the likes of me") and Rita gets her degree despite having received a very object lesson in the thinness of the middle-class veneer she assumed was somehow more substantial than her working-class background. As she tells Bryant, "I had the choice." And having gained her degree a world of choices opens up to her.

    This is very satisfying movie because it works across all levels. The acting is first-rate, the dialog is both witty but also believable, and the final resolution is optimistic without being trite. All in all, this is a movie to see and enjoy and perhaps see again for its warmth and humanity.
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  • Irene Toscana
    5.0 out of 5 stars Che bello!
    Reviewed in Italy on December 5, 2015
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    Non avevo mai sentito parlare di questo film prima d'ora, lo confesso. Divertente, rinfrescante, toccante, mai scontato, con due attori in stato di particolare grazie. Rimasterizzato, la qualità video e audio è ottima. Lo consiglio a tutti.
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  • Caro
    5.0 out of 5 stars Magnifique film !
    Reviewed in France on August 5, 2021
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    Ravie d'avoir découvert ce film servi par deux excellents acteurs britanniques que j'adore ! Merci d'avoir édité ce film en Dvd car j'étais trop jeune pour le voir au cinéma et je ne l'avais jamais vu à la TV ! Un vrai petit bijou de tendresse et d'humour "à l'anglaise" ! Julie Walters livre une performance étonnante, je ne l'avais jamais vue aussi drôle ! L'élégant Michael Caine est également remarquable. Ce récit plaira aussi à tous ceux qui apprécient le "pur" accent anglais, l'ambiance des universités traditionnelles et se passionnent pour la littérature anglo-saxonne, mais également aux femmes modernes et indépendantes. En faisant des recherches, j'ai appris qu'à sa sortie, le personnage de Rita avait influencé et encouragé beaucoup de dames à prendre leur destin en main. Quant à Caine, il aurait déclaré en 2007 que ce long-métrage était "le dernier bon film qu'il avait tourné" ! La fin du récit n'est ni conventionnelle ni mièvre, mais surprenante et touchante !
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  • Mr. A. J. Tennant
    5.0 out of 5 stars Educating Rita
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2014
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    **THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS**

    Educating Rita is a 1983 drama/comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on Russell's stage play. The film stars Michael Caine, Julie Walters, and Maureen Lipman. It won multiple major awards for best actor and best actress and was nominated for three Oscars.

    Liverpudlian working-class young woman Rita (Walters) wants to better herself by studying literature. Her assigned Open University professor, Frank Bryant (Caine), however, has long ago openly taken to the bottle, and soon develops misgivings about Rita's ability to adapt to academia. Bryant is a jaded university lecturer, who describes his occupational ability as 'appalling but good enough for his appalling students'. His passion for literature is reignited by Rita, whose technical ability for the subject is limited by her lack of education but whose enthusiasm Frank finds refreshing.

    The film focuses on Rita's unhappiness with her life in her blue-collar, working-class environment including with her husband who wants to have a family, as well as her struggles to fit into a new educated middle-class existence in academia, while seeking a "better song to sing". Rita's original preconceptions that the educated classes have better lives and are happier people are brought into question throughout the film through Frank's failing social life and alcoholism and her flatmate Trish's attempted suicide. Rita, her search, and her search's meaning for her all evolve as she adapts to academia and grows as a person.

    Despite not having seen this film before buying it on DVD, I really enjoyed watching Educating Rita, a film which relied on a very well-written storyline and very good direction, and also relied on a wealth of talented actors. Educating Rita was one of Michael Caine's most successful films of the 1980s if not THE most successful film of that decade for the actor, and it was Julie Walters's debut feature-length film. I am currently studying a part-time IT course at college (starting from 31st March 2014 up until whenever I finish the course), so in that respect I've been influenced somewhat even though I watched the film the day after I started my course.

    Going back to the film, Educating Rita is a great film and it is one that I would watch again in my lifetime. Very highly recommended.
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  • Justin C.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing Blu Ray release
    Reviewed in Australia on August 31, 2021
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    To start this film is great 10/10 but this Blu ray release is not worrh getting. I pulled out my Rank version DVD 2008 and the upscaled image is just as good. In fact the blu ray must just be a upscaled. The film was shot on 35mm so at least a sharp 2k transfer but its not soft image no sharp edges. The music has not had much done and still in Dolby Stereo. My ref is a Kuro TV and was disappointed. Bright sunlight scenes are wash out and a lack of colour definition. Unless the 35mm is degraded this is why it looks like this. Has the same extra as DVD release two movie trailers. You get blu-ray because of the quality but some film do not get the care need and restoration.
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  • Francelil1955
    5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECT!!!! PARFAIT!!!
    Reviewed in Canada on April 29, 2025
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